Analysis of Innocence Bleeding
Love destroys what sex begins,
as playgrounds and schoolyards
hide the true nature of the King
Innocence bleeding,
within the deep warm incision
of a preternatural beginning
(West Philadelphia: October, 1972)
'From An Anthology Of Perception Vol. #1'

| Scheme | AAB BXB XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1101 10110101 10010 01011010 101010 10100010 11010010101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 255 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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